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• Aramaic, then, has a very long history indeed. At the very least, it was a recognisable language, different to Hebrew but parallel with it, as early as the times of Abraham - around 2000 B.C. but almost certainly well before that. And as we go through the pages of the Bible, we find that from the time of Abraham, Aramaic continued to be spoken through the four hundred years that the Israelites were in Egypt, through the coming out of Egypt, through the times of the Judges, through the times of the Kings of Israel and Judah, and through the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires (as we have seen on our lessons on those subjects).